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Scenario design: The glue that binds mysteries

October 29, 2023 by Guest Writer Leave a Comment

I asked game designer Josh Fox whether there was something he would write about mystery games and what makes them tick.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalypse keys, brindlewood bay, Lovecraftesque

Cosy creepy, murder and tea: Brindlewood Bay Kickstarts two hardcovers

April 28, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Play a group of elderly women, members of the local Murder Mavens Mystery Book Club, who help the authorities solve murder cases in a picturesque New England Town.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: brindlewood bay, kickstarters, The Gauntlet Gaming Community

Eldritch terror in the jazz era: Brindlewood Bay’s The Unquiet Dark

February 5, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Unquiet Dark is a new campaign supplement for Brindlewood Bay.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: brindlewood bay, kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #133

December 31, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s the end of the week, the month and the year. It is, therefore, time for one last look back at the RPG news from 2021 with Geek Native’s Routinely Itemised: RPGs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: awfully cheerful engine, brindlewood bay, cluedo, demiplane, Dragonlance, Dream Realm Storytellers, en publishing, everway, gallant knight games, gallantfunding, jasper's game day, kult: divinty lost, level up, lumpley games, Meguey Baker, Paizo Publishing, root, routinely itemised, soulbound, soulbound: champions of order, The One Ring, the witcher

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #129

December 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news summarised from the week that’s just gone with reviews, interviews, bundle deals, competitions and crowdfunding projects.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, a couple of drakes, Achtung! Cthulhu, bandit camp, brindlewood bay, broken shield, carbon 2185, Chaosium, city of mist, Claim the Sky, cortex, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dc comics, defiant, dms guild, dndbeyond, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, edge, Elizabeth Chaipraditkul, en publishing, fairy trails, fandom tabletop, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, Free League Publishing, game machinery, ghost hunters, gila, goodman games, Gunnar Roxen, haunted west, Into The Odd, Iron Crown Enterprises, just crunch games, Legendary Games, legends of avallen, magpie games, Mana Project Studio, marvel, Marvel Multiverse Tabletop Role-Playing Game, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, nightfell, Nova, paranoia, pathfinder, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, root, routinely itemised, runequest starter set, Steffie de Vaan, storm crow, strixhaven, the dee sanction, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, The Matrix, The One Ring, traveller, truffle shuffle, Tuesday Knight Games, twilight imperium, Victoriana, World Anvil, xploringmap

Brindlewood Bay RPG announces a new edition

November 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Platinum bestseller Brindlewood Bay has today announced a new edition. The original was digital-only, but the new edition will be the physical one.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: brindlewood bay, The Gauntlet Gaming Community

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #118

September 17, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A newly announced D&D event, new directors at GAMA, controversy and a whole tonne of new RPGs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: a couple of drakes, animal adventures, apotheosis, brindlewood bay, Call of Cthulhu, Cepheus Deluxe, chamomile has adventures, cubicle 7, demiplane, Diana Jones Award, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dwarven Forge, edge, fat dragon games, Freddie Taylor-Bell, gama, game wizards, gencon, goodman games, Gun Metal Games, heroic maps, iron kingdoms, James Maliszewski, Jon Peterson, limitless adventures, Matt Forbeck, Meguey Baker, Modiphius Entertainment, mork borg, Mutants & Masterminds, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder infinite, Privateer Press, Ravenloft, routinely itemised, Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide, Shotguns & Sorcery, Skirmisher Publishing, SLA Industries, star trek adventures, starfinder infinite, talespire, tanya floaker, the dee sanction, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, vincent baker, wizards of the coast

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #101

May 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s been a busy week, so sit back and treat yourself to a scroll through the headlines; sales, reviews, interviews and stats from the RPG-scene.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, alien rpg, astate, awfully cheerful engine, battletech, brindlewood bay, candlekeep mysteries, carovea victor, chamomile has adventures, cubicle 7, Defiant Awakening, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy age, Flash Gordon, Free League Publishing, gama, game machinery, gen con, ghostfire gaming, goodman games, GURPS, handiwork games, hasbro, jackals, Jim Pinto, jonathan hicks, lion banner games, lord of the rings, Marvel Heroic Roleplaying, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, My Little Pony, neverending, onyx path publishing, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, Pelgrane Press, petersen games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, postworldgames, red scar publishing, river horse, roleplay elixir, routinely itemised, Russ Morrissey, savage worlds, Skirmisher Publishing, soulbound starter set, spelljammer, starfinder, the yellow king, those dark places, Troll Lord Games, Vampire: The Masquerade, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, voxstory, wanderhome, will power games, wizards of the coast, xploringmap

The best selling historical RPGs of 2020

December 18, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As the year comes to a close, DriveThruRPG and Geek Native have been looking back at RPGs published this year and which sold well.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Aquelarre, brindlewood bay, Chaosium, deadlands, drivethrurpg, Free League Publishing, lex arcana, Nocturnal Media, onyx path publishing, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, quality games, sine nomine publishing, stats, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, They Came from Beneath the Sea!, vaesen

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #76

November 27, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the RPG news this week we’ve big news from Pinnacle and Savage Worlds, we discover which project Wizards of the Coast are working on for D&D that will take years and a look at the latest reviews, releases and interviews.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, blackbirds, blackfisk forlag, blood feud, brindlewood bay, Brittannia Game Designs, bundle of holding, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, cortex prime, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, cypher system, deadlands, dune, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Fire Ruby Designs, Free League Publishing, goodman games, humble bundle, invisible sun, itch.io, Jeremy Crawford, jp chapleau, knock!, Modiphius Entertainment, mythic table, osprey games, pathfinder, Peter Adkison, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, role, routinely itemised, savage worlds, shiver, stranger things, tasha's cauldron of everything, those dark places, twilight: 2000, virtual tabletop, warhammer, warlock, zweihander

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